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When do we draw the line?

MaggieD

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Protesters are not looters. Rioters are not protesters.

when do we stop this lawlessness? One dead. How many more?

What is the reason for not enforcing the law? When is enough enough?
 
I see hundreds of police massing. What is troubling your heart?
 
Protesters are not looters. Rioters are not protesters.

when do we stop this lawlessness? One dead. How many more?

What is the reason for not enforcing the law? When is enough enough?

The government created this situation, they need to be replaced. All of them.
 
The government created this situation, they need to be replaced. All of them.

the govt ... AND THE CORRUPT MEDIA
 
Legally, I draw the line at the Constitution. I suspect that a great deal of US law is based on English common law, which means that our law is probably not unlike that of a constitutional monarchy. We seem to still be struggling with the nature of our origins, including the liberty granted in the Declaration of Independence. I'm not sure what rioting and looting you're alluding to, but I think we give some criminals carte blanche while criminalizing people for something as benign as smoking pot.

We really need to re-examine our priorities. The Declaration of Independence doesn't give us the right to rob and slay one another. The Constitution does not allow us to enslave one another, and I don't think a caste system is appropriate according to either document. If people are robbing and killing, they have to be really hungry to do that.
 
Protesters are not looters. Rioters are not protesters.

when do we stop this lawlessness? One dead. How many more?

What is the reason for not enforcing the law? When is enough enough?
As I understand it, enforcement only works in the short-term - in the long term, the enforcers and the enforced - ALL the enforced - need to understand they're in this together, and work together to prevent such things.

Whether that can happen, I don't know, because I don't know which specific thing you're referring to here.
 
Protesters are not looters. Rioters are not protesters.

when do we stop this lawlessness? One dead. How many more?

What is the reason for not enforcing the law? When is enough enough?

If they enforce the law they're racist and restraining the 1st Amendment rights of the protesters.

Face it, we've managed to Politically Correct ourselves into a situation where looting, vandalism and assault on cops is protected speech.
 
The government created this situation, they need to be replaced. All of them.

How about the mother ****ers tearing up the streets? Do you put any blame on them?
 
If they enforce the law they're racist and restraining the 1st Amendment rights of the protesters.

Face it, we've managed to Politically Correct ourselves into a situation where looting, vandalism and assault on cops is protected speech.

No way, dude. Violence is not politically correct.
 
How about the mother ****ers tearing up the streets? Do you put any blame on them?
I don't know their specifics.

What riot are we talking about here, btw?
 
Protesters are not looters. Rioters are not protesters.

when do we stop this lawlessness? One dead. How many more?

What is the reason for not enforcing the law? When is enough enough?

Hyperbole and manufactured victimhood from a blatant lie in Ferguson, and more bull**** in Baltimore. I am at a loss why it is propped up by politicians and media. I guess that makes me what ever someone will call me, but at least I respect the rule of law.

If a policeman has broke the law, prosecute him and these looters.
 
states rights would solve all these problems... this then MAKES liberals take FULL PAIN for their actions and that makes them learn and they change to conservative... the wise states will have wisdom tests for their voters and they will stop the unwise to be around harmful influences like wasting time with entertainment or drugs or the internet
 
Protesters are not looters. Rioters are not protesters.

when do we stop this lawlessness? One dead. How many more?

What is the reason for not enforcing the law? When is enough enough?

When Barack Obama leaves office (good riddance) and Donald Trump is sworn in.
 
Hyperbole and manufactured victimhood from a blatant lie in Ferguson, and more bull**** in Baltimore. I am at a loss why it is propped up by politicians and media. I guess that makes me what ever someone will call me, but at least I respect the rule of law.

If a policeman has broke the law, prosecute him and these looters.

In the Milwaukee riots last month, there is videotape of black rioters hunting for white people, it's on YouTube. Any white pedestrian, or car with white people in it, was attacked.
 
How about the mother ****ers tearing up the streets? Do you put any blame on them?

How many decades have they been putting up with police brutality? Everyone has a point where they will react with violence to violence.
 
If they enforce the law they're racist and restraining the 1st Amendment rights of the protesters.

No, they're not. What an absurd statement.
Face it, we've managed to Politically Correct ourselves into a situation where looting, vandalism and assault on cops is protected speech.

No, it's not. What on earth are you braying about? Nothing based in reality, in any case.
 
How many decades have they been putting up with police brutality? Everyone has a point where they will react with violence to violence.

So the violence is justified. Outstanding!
 
No, they're not. What an absurd statement.

No, it's not. What on earth are you braying about? Nothing based in reality, in any case.

The looting, vandalism, and assaults on police are very real. That you disagree with his opinion is not important.
 
The looting, vandalism, and assaults on police are very real. That you disagree with his opinion is not important.

I haven't said that they're not real, sport.

Please learn to read better. I can help you with that, if you'd like.
 
Protesters are not looters. Rioters are not protesters.

when do we stop this lawlessness? One dead. How many more?

What is the reason for not enforcing the law? When is enough enough?

If you mean police simply watching rioting, destruction of property and looting take place that is a political call. Other than using deadly force, when outnumbered well over 10 to 1, it is too risky for police to try to make "regular" arrests. It seems that the prefered (political?) response is for police to form a "show of force" line, use tear gas, fire some non-lethal rounds and, basically, just wait it out.
 
I don't know their specifics.

What riot are we talking about here, btw?

They used to be called race riots, now they are called protests. In either case, it is where the police simply form lines, draw overtime pay and watch looting and destruction of property.
 
I haven't said that they're not real, sport.

Please learn to read better. I can help you with that, if you'd like.

Are you saying the chants to kill police are prosecuted? Sounds like protected speech to me. The people who called out to burn Ferguson down were prosecuted? The looters on video(and identifiable) were prosecuted? No. He is much closer to the reality than you are.
 
So the violence is justified. Outstanding!

If not justified, at least understandable..... Doing nothing all these years has not had any positive results....
 
They used to be called race riots, now they are called protests. In either case, it is where the police simply form lines, draw overtime pay and watch looting and destruction of property.
Oh, we're talking about riots in general?
 
How many decades have they been putting up with police brutality? Everyone has a point where they will react with violence to violence.

That is utter nonsense just like ISIS is using - "they" are not standing up to police brutality by looting stores, beating random white folks or destroying property of innocent bystanders . It is high time for police to use real violence to stop this "reparations" and racial "payback" nonsense.
 
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